Genre:
Music
Release Date: 07/15/2008
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 95 min
Distributor/Studio: Eagle Vision Media
Few artists in the history of
rock and roll have been more groundbreaking and influential than
Bob Dylan, whose songwriting brought a new degree of literacy and intellect to popular music. But
Dylan's music didn't emerge from a vacuum -- his work was informed by a wide range of musical and literary sources, ranging from activist
folk and
country blues to beat-era writers and French symbolist poets. Filmmaker
Steve Gammond offers a look at the artists and creative movements that helped form
Bob Dylan's creative vision in the
documentary Down The Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan, in which musical historians and fellow artists talk about the work that shaped
Dylan's creative consciousness.
Down The Tracks includes vintage footage of
Woody Guthrie,
Leadbelly and
Mississippi John Hurt, as well as new performances from
Martin Carthy,
The Handsome Family,
Po' Girl and
Jolie Holland.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
